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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Die schöne Melusine Ouvertüre (The Fair Melusine Overture) op. 32 edited by Christopher Hogwood (Bärenreiter, Kassel, 2003), xxi + 82pp. £29.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

R. Larry Todd
R. Larry Todd
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Duke University
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 2004 , pp. 206 - 209
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References

1 Schumann, Robert, Schriften über Musik und Musiker, ed. Jansen, F., 5th edn (Leipzig, 1914), 1: 142n.Google Scholar

2 See Schumann's review in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 4 (1836): 7; andGoogle Scholar Mendelssohn's letter to his sister Fanny Hensel, 30 Jan. 1836, in Mendelssohn, , Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, ed. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Paul, trans. Wallace, Lady (London, 1868), 95.Google Scholar A new translation of Schumann's review by Grey, Thomas is available in The Mendelssohn Companion, ed. Seaton, Douglass (Westport, Conn., 2001), 545–6Google Scholar.

3 Letters, 32 (7 Apr. 1834, Felix to Fanny).Google ScholarPubMed

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8 For formal modifications in the Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and Hebrides Overtures, see my Mendelssohn: ‘The Hebrides’ and Other Overtures (Cambridge, 1993), 52–68Google Scholar.

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